Ben Collins

Ben Collins is a multimedia reporter and has worked for the ABC in the Kimberley since 2004, producing radio, television and online content. With an honours degree in wildlife and genetics, Ben has a keen interest in science, business, Indigenous affairs, regional Australia, fishing and wooden boats.Follow Ben on Twitter: @BB_Collins

Researchers say a revolving door of Prime Ministers and Governments has led to poor outcomes in remote education. Despite this, mentors and teachers on the ground are going above and beyond to keep remote kids engaged and involved.

It is possibly one of the most beautiful churches in Australia with its stunning inlaid pearl shell altar, and now the Sacred Heart Church at Beagle Bay on the Kimberley coast is celebrating 100 years of extraordinary history.

They are striking, fat-trunked trees unique to parts of the Kimberley and a small section of the Top End, but the two scientists studying how they came from Africa or Madagascar have widely different explanations.

It's unusual for a town to be able to leave its local district — and stranger still that it may return, but the north-west Australian town of Broome did indeed leave the massive region known as the Kimberley, only to return at a later time.

The Kalumburu Aboriginal community is allocated $7 million for a swimming pool in the WA State Budget but, if consulted, they would have asked for a cheaper water park, and spent the difference on domestic violence prevention.